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...during the 2002-03 school year to 81,000 one year later. In Germany, the percentage of pupils who say they've been involved in physical violence has doubled within a generation, from 5% in the 1970s to 10% today. "The threshold has been lowered substantially," says Werner Ebner, a former teacher in the town of Riederich in southern Germany. "Kids resort to physical violence much more readily." In late November in South Wales, cancer surviver Bianca Powell, 12, suffered minor burns when a bully set fire to her hair, which had just grown back after four years of chemotherapy...
...substantial influence over about 40% of the entire capitalization of the Swedish stock exchange. (Even the exchange is part of a company that the Wallenbergs control.) Investor AB, the family's industrial holding company, dates from 1916. It faced an unprecedented attack two years ago, when Swiss financier Martin Ebner built up a 10% stake and called for Investor to be broken up in the name of improving shareholder value. Ebner, overstretched financially, has since had to sell or reduce many of his holdings, including his stake in Investor. The episode was a harsh test for the latest Wallenberg generation...
INVESTMENT Caught in a Bear Trap Swiss multimillionaire and bow-tied shareholder activist Martin Ebner, who has made a career out of being a thorn in the side of Switzerland's corporate establishment, sees himself as the Swiss equivalent to that patron saint of U.S. shareholders, investor Warren Buffett. Lately, though, Ebner has had a few setbacks. Last week he was forced to sell controlling stakes in four key investment funds. BZ Group, Ebner's holding company, made the sale after the share prices of the firms in which the funds held stock plunged. But while Ebner may have always...
Whitton kept the Lions hitless through five innings, but the first hit was a double by Columbia's Anne-Marie Ebner. Ebner would eventually score the game-tying...
...next inning, Ebner struck again, driving the game winning run off of Thoke, who had come in to relieve Whitton with runners on base...